Thread by @ActorAaronBooth

As of this moment, Bernie Sanders and Mitch McConnell have voted aye on the exact same number of confirmation votes (11/12) thus far in 2021. They opposed different nominees however: McConnell opposed Mayorkas (confirmed 56-43) and Sanders opposed Vilsack (confirmed 92-7).

Burr & Capito are the other two who have only opposed one nominee on a confirmation floor vote, though Capito also missed a vote and Burr missed 2 votes.

You then have Cornyn, Fischer, Young & Blunt (though Blunt missed a vote as well) who have only voted against the confirmation of 2 nominees.

An interesting group of GOP Senators who have voted against 2 or fewer confirmation votes:

-Romney
-Collins
-Murkowski
-Capito
-Portman
-McConnell
-Cornyn
-Fischer
-Burr
-Blunt
-Young

These basically break down into groups of 1. relative moderates 2. institutionalist/establishment figures 3. Retiring

Coincidentally, the two Senators who have voted against the most Biden nominations to this point are Hawley (12) and Cruz (11) who happen to each be junior Senators to one of the 11 Republicans who have voted for the most Biden nominees.

As a further observation: I'm a bit interested that Shelby and Tuberville as an Alabama pair have both supported the exact same 4 and opposed the exact same 8 nominations for confirmation. Non-zero chance Tuberville is just copying Shelby's votes.

You have the same identical 6-6 split between Cramer and Hoeven from ND as well.

Same thing with Wicker and Hyde-Smith in MS, though Hyde-Smith missed a vote that Wicker did not.

Going back to this, you could include Tillis in this group as he has also only voted against 2 nominations on the floor, though he has also missed 2 votes.

https://twitter.com/ActorAaronBooth/status/1366614523914964992?s=20

And Johnson who only voted against Mayorkas